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WFGE
WFGE (101.1 FM) is a country music formatted broadcast radio station licensed to State College, Pennsylvania, serving the State College/ Bellefonte area. WFGE is owned and operated by Seven Mountains Media, through licensee Southern Belle Media Family, LLC. WFGE boasts one of the strongest signals in Central Pennsylvania. History Founded by Allegheny Mountain Network President Cary H. Simpson, WGMR first signed on the air on August 15, 1961, as the FM sister station to WTRN Tyrone. Though also licensed to Tyrone, WGMR has primarily served State College and Centre County. Through the years, WGMR has changed formats a couple times, from country to alternative and Top 40 at the turn of the 21st century. Prior to the top 40 format, WGMR was the State College region's alternative music station, branded as "101.1 The Revolution", and was rated one of the Top 10 alternative stations in the country for a couple of years. The station switched formats and became a Top 40 radio statio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WFGY
WFGY (98.1 FM, "Froggy 98.1") is a commercial radio station licensed to serve Altoona, Pennsylvania. The station is owned by Seven Mountains Media, through licensee Southern Belle Media Family, LLC, and broadcasts a Froggy-branded country format. WFGY is the flagship station of the Froggy Radio network of stations in the region, which also includes WFGI-FM (Froggy 95.5 on 95.5 MHz), licensed to serve Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and WFGE (Big Froggy 101.1 on 101.1 MHz), licensed to serve State College, Pennsylvania. WFGY is a grandfathered “superpower” station. While the station’s effective radiated power (ERP) is within the maximum limit allowed for a Class B FM station, its antenna height above average terrain (HAAT) is too high for its ERP according to current FCC rules. Sister stations The sister stations of WFGY in the Altoona market are 100.1 WALY, 103.9 WQWY, 104.9 WRKY-FM, 1290 WFBG, and 1430 WTNA. History Beginnings as WFBG-FM The Federal Communications C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WOWY (FM)
WOWY (103.1 FM) is a classic hits radio station in State College, Pennsylvania operating with a power of 370 watts. History The talk programming of WRSC moved from 1390 AM to 103.1 FM on Monday, August 3, 2009, as "Newsradio 103 WRSC". Until May 20, 2015, WRSC-FM carried many nationally syndicated shows such as, ''Coast to Coast AM'' with George Noory, ''America in the Morning'' with Jim Bohannon, ''The Glenn Beck Program'', '' The Dave Ramsey Show'', ''The Sean Hannity Show'', '' The Michael Savage Show'', ''The Mark Levin Show'', '' The Jerry Doyle Show'', ''The Clark Howard Show'', and ''Live on Sunday Night with Bill Cunningham''. WRSC-FM also aired a local show, The WRSC Morning Show, starring Centre Region-area radio veteran Kevin Nelson (& Company), which was replaced with Pat Urban show. WRSC-FM aired NASCAR programming as well during the week from MRN Radio. The news/talk format moved from WRSC-FM back to 1390 AM on May 20, 2015, as 103.1 flipped to classic hits a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WZWW (FM)
WZWW (93.7 MHz) is a hot adult contemporary music formatted radio station licensed to serve the community of Boalsburg, Pennsylvania, and broadcasting to the State College, Pennsylvania, area. History WZWW signed on as WBUS on April 13, 1998, part of Boalsburg Broadcasting, with a city of license of Boalsburg, Pennsylvania. The station was purchased later by Dame Broadcasting in 2001, then by Forever Broadcasting in March 2005. On January 22, 2019, the station's classic rock format swapped frequencies with 99.5 WMAJ-FM, with the station changing its call sign to WMAJ and assuming a Top 40 format. It was announced on October 12, 2022, that Forever Media was selling 34 stations and 12 translators, including WMAJ and five other sister stations, to State College-based Seven Mountains Media for $17.375 million. The deal closed on January 1, 2023. On December 30, 2022, it was announced that the station would adopt a hot adult contemporary Adult contemporary music (AC) is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WLEJ (AM)
WLEJ (1450 kHz) is a classic country AM radio station broadcasting in State College, Pennsylvania, United States. It is owned by Kristin Cantrell's Seven Mountains Media, through licensee Southern Belle Media Family, LLC. Programming is also heard over FM translator W279DK (103.7 FM), offering a signal on the FM band in the immediate State College area. History Centre Broadcasters, Inc., applied for a construction permit from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to build a new 250-watt radio station in State College on April 18, 1944. The application was approved on July 10, 1945. ( Guide to reading History Cards) Broadcasting of Centre County's first radio station began on October 29 of that year from studios in State College's Glennland Building and a transmitter site north of town in Ferguson Township. The WMAJ call sign was submitted out of desperation; after various call signs to allude to Centre County and State College were rejected, Centre Broadcasters submitte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WHUN (AM)
WHUN (1150 kHz) is a classic hits AM radio station serving the Huntingdon, Pennsylvania area. Owned by Kristin Cantrell, the broadcast license has been held by Southern Belle, LLC. On June 28, 2018, the station became known as "97.7 103.1 103.5 WOWY, simulcasting with WOWY (103.1 FM) in State College and WHUN-FM (103.5) in Huntingdon. History WHUN began in 1947, and among its original personnel was Cary H. Simpson, who assisted in building the station and would later build a series of his own stations in central and northern Pennsylvania. For many years, WHUN's ownership would be relatively unchanged, with the station and its FM sister, WLAK (103.5 FM), which would come on the air years later, staying in the Biddle and McMeen families until the stations were sold in the mid-1990s to BARDCOM of Mount Union, Pa. From 1994-2002, WHUN was the sister station of WXMJ 99.5 FM (Majic 99). Both stations were sold to Forever Broadcasting in 2002. The station's call sign was changed t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WBUS (FM)
WBUS (99.5 MHz) is the call sign for an FM radio station broadcasting in Centre Hall, Pennsylvania serving the State College, Pennsylvania area. History Originally on 94.5, the WLTS call sign and format moved to 99.5 while 94.5 became WBHV-FM. 99.5 was originally a class A station licensed to the town of Mount Union using the call sign WXMJ (Magic 99.5). When purchased by Forever Broadcasting, the company applied for and was granted a change in the city of license to Centre Hall along with a change to a class B1 (25,000 watts equivalent) status. The transmitter site was moved to Tussey Mountain on the south side of State College. On January 22, 2019, WMAJ-FM's CHR format moved to WBUS 93.7 FM Boalsburg, swapping frequencies with classic rock-formatted "The Bus" and the station assuming the WBUS call sign. It was announced on October 12, 2022 that Forever Media was selling 34 stations, including WBUS and five other sister stations, to State College State College is a b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WTRN
WTRN is an American commercial AM radio station, licensed to the borough of Tyrone, Pennsylvania. The station operates at the federally assigned frequency of 1340 kHz with a full-time power output of 1,000 watts. WTRN also operates two FM translators. One at 100.7 MHz Tyrone and 96.9 MHz Altoona, Pennsylvania. WTRN was the flagship station for the former Allegheny Mountain Network (AMN). History WTRN's beginnings were part of a boom in local radio station construction in the northern and central part of Pennsylvania that began in 1950. In 1947, Allegheny Mountain Network founder Cary H. Simpson helped build WHUN, where he also would serve as program director, in his hometown of Huntingdon, Pennsylvania; approximately 20 miles southeast of Tyrone in Huntingdon County. Inspired by the station's success, Simpson built the first station in his group, WKBI (AM) in St. Marys, Pennsylvania. As this was the very first station in his group, WKBI served as the flagship st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Centre County, Pennsylvania
Centre County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 158,172. Its county seat is Bellefonte. Centre County is composed of the State College, PA Metropolitan Statistical Area. The county is part of the Central region of the commonwealth. History The land of the future Centre County was first recorded by James Potter in 1764. Potter reached the top of Nittany Mountain and "seeing the prairies and noble forest beneath him, cried out to his attendant, 'By heavens, Thompson, I have discovered an empire!'" Centre County was created on February 13, 1800 by Act 2092 of the Pennsylvania Legislature from parts of Huntingdon, Lycoming, Mifflin, and Northumberland counties. The act said that its inhabitants “labour under great hardships, by reason of their great distance from the present seats of justice, and the public offices” of their current counties. Its population was 4,112. Centre was among ten new count ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lewistown, Pennsylvania
Lewistown is a borough in and the county seat of Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is the principal city of the '' Lewistown, PA Micropolitan Statistical Area'', which encompasses all of Mifflin County. It lies along the Juniata River, northwest of Harrisburg. The number of people living in the borough in 1900 was 4,451; in 1910, 8,166; in 1940, 13,017; and in 2000, 8,998. The population was 8,561 at the 2020 census. History 18th century The borough was incorporated in 1795 and was named for William "Bill" Lewis, a Quaker and a member of the state legislature. He gained designation of the borough, which was known then as the Village of Ohesson, as the county seat of Mifflin County. 19th century During the late 19th century, Mifflin County became the crossroads of the Commonwealth. Located near the geographic center of the state, the area became a hub for traffic moving in every direction. Early roads crisscrossed the region, but it was the construction of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WBHV (AM)
WBHV (1390 kHz) is a CHR station broadcasting in State College, Pennsylvania, with a power of 2,000 watts daytime, and 1,000 watts nighttime. History The then-WRSC moved its talk programming on 1390 AM to 103.1 FM on Monday, August 3, 2009, as "Newsradio 103 WRSC". The AM station switched to a business news/talk format branded as "Money Talk 1390". On November 18, 2013, WRSC changed its format to sports radio Sports radio (or sports talk radio) is a radio format devoted entirely to discussion and broadcasting of sport, sporting events. A widespread programming genre that has a narrow audience appeal, sports radio is characterized by an often-low comed ..., branded "1390 The Fanatic". On May 20, 2015, WRSC flipped back to news/talk as "Newsradio 1390 WRSC". It was announced on October 12, 2022, that Forever Media was selling 34 stations and 12 translators, including WRSC and five other sister stations, to State College-based Seven Mountains Media for $17.375 million ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Altoona, Pennsylvania
Altoona ( ) is a city in Blair County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 43,963 at the time of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. It is the principal city of the Altoona Metropolitan statistical area, metropolitan area, which includes all of Blair County and was recorded as having a population of 122,823. Altoona was established in 1849 by the Pennsylvania Railroad. Having grown around the railroad industry, the city has worked to recover from Deindustrialization, industrial decline and Urban sprawl, urban decentralization experienced in recent decades. The city is home to the Altoona Curve baseball team of the Eastern League (1938–present), Eastern League, which is the AA affiliate of the Pittsburgh Pirates Major League Baseball team. They play at Peoples Natural Gas Field in Altoona. The Altoona Symphony Orchestra has called Altoona home since 1928. Prominent landmarks include the Horseshoe Curve (Pennsylvania), Horseshoe Curve, the Railroaders Mem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Top 40
In the music industry, the Top 40 is a list of the 40 currently most popular songs in a particular genre. It is the best-selling or most frequently broadcast popular music. Record charts have traditionally consisted of a total of 40 songs. "Top 40" or " contemporary hit radio" is also a radio format. History According to producer Richard Fatherley, Todd Storz was the inventor of the format, at his radio station KOWH in Omaha, Nebraska. Storz invented the format in the early 1950s, using the number of times a record was played on jukeboxes to compose a weekly list for broadcast. The format was commercially successful, and Storz and his father Robert, under the name of the Storz Broadcasting Company, subsequently acquired other stations to use the new Top 40 format. In 1989, Todd Storz was inducted into the Nebraska Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame. The term "Top 40", describing a radio format, appeared in 1960. The Top 40, whether surveyed by a radio station or a p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
